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Jade Dragon Snow Mountain is a mountain massif (also identified as a small mountain range) near Lijiang, in Yunnan province, southwestern China. The range is also known as Mount Yulong after the Chinese or Mount Satseto after the Naxi name. Its highest peak is named Shanzidou (扇子陡) (5,596 m or 18,360 ft). The view of the massif from the gardens at the Black Dragon Pool (Heilong Tan) in Lijiang is noted as one of China’s finest views, and part of Yulong Snow Mountain Scenic Area, a AAAAA-classified scenic area.

Jade Dragon Snow Mountain extends 35 km from south to north and 12 km from west to east, producing different altitudes in the mountain. Owing to conspicuous three-dimensional climate caused by different altitude, various trees and rare animals living in different climates can live together in this mountain It is estimated that half of Yunnan’s 13,000 plants species, 400 kinds of trees, dozens of flowers types, and one-third of China’s known species of medicinal herbs can be found here. When the spring comes, Jade Dragon Snow Mountain bursts into bloom when the camellias, rhododendrons, and azaleas start flowering. Herders take their cattle, goats, sheep, and yaks to graze on its slopes. In autumn, a portion of the pines turns amber yellow, while the leaves on deciduous trees present patches of orange, bright yellow, and scar.

With the height of 5596 meters, the mountain is magnificent. Jade Dragon Snow Mountain is partly hidden and partly visible; sometimes under the cloudless sky, it is sparkling and crystal-clear; sometimes partly covered by cloud, the part above cloud is bright and clear while the part under cloud is totally green.

Wuzhen Town, in Tongxiang City, Zhejiang Province, has a history of more than 1,000 years. Of the ancient residential houses, workshops, and stores still standing on the banks of the rivers, 169,600 square meters, accounting for 81.54 percent of the town’s total floor area, have remained unchanged, lending an atmosphere of antiquity.

Originally built in the central 19th century covering a total area of 650 square meters (7020 sq. ft), the former residence of Mao Dun, a well-known Chinese revolutionary writer, was the Mao family home for many generations and witnessed the growth of this great revolutionist and writer. In 1984, the former residence of Mao Dun was renovated and extended to cover a total area of 1,731.5 square meters (18,700 sq. ft) – it opened to the public one year later. In 1988, it was listed as one of the Key State Preserved Relic Units and in 1994 was renamed the Mao Dun Museum of the City of Tongxiang. The house has three exhibition areas: ‘Wuzhen, the Hometown of Mao Dun’, ‘the Way of Mao Dun’, and ‘the Former Residence of Mao Dun (renovated)’. The present Mao Dun Museum can be found to the east of the residence, which used to be Lizhi Shuyuan (Aspiration Academy) where Mao Dun spent his early school years.

Seda Apart color than most other towns Seoul dam are pastoral, when the car into Seda, the grass, the grass and sheep constitute the theme of human life. Seda is a Tibetan ‘Golden Horse’ means, because the legend In this fertile and beautiful grasslands had been found ‘horse’-shaped gold and its name, it was also said to be buried in the ground because of a ‘Golden Horse.’

Away from the county seat 20 kilometers Seda has a ravine called La Wing ditch, the ditch along a few miles upstream, under the blue sky, green grass between Silver Ridge, several thousand hertz red huts, surrounded by as few as Zhongxinggongyue Block magnificent hall – it is hidden in the mountains of La Wing Monastery Five College, also known as Seda Buddhist Institute. Seda Buddhist Institute is the world’s largest Tibetan Buddhist Institute. resident lamas have ten thousand people . whenever there are number of Buddhist activities will increase, up to up to 40 000.

Ganzi Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture Seda La Rong Wu Ming Buddhist Institute, called the world’s largest Tibetan Buddhist Institute, there were more than 50,000 students and monks. Seda county at a distance about 30 km in the valley, beautiful scenery, here is the Tibetan Buddhist temple relatively concentrated areas, all for the Red Sect (Ning Mary faction) temples, monks throughout the whole valley shag scene shock.

College of long-term and short-term training two, long-term school system for six years, thirteen years for the special degree. According to the basis of students enrollment, in the preparatory classes, not the cultural foundation of learning culture, class, and other students with learning other courses before examination. Each semester at least Xiuman six courses, in the period at the end of each held exams, to test the learning achievement. Failed to continue learning, to pass the exam. Six years after the study result qualified can be issued certificates. In addition, a multidisciplinary subject test, Li Zong papers and oral argument, college can grant the Khenpo (Master degree). Also can be according to their actual, one, two or one or two months short-term learning in college, a single exam eligible, issue the certificate.Nearly every day, Tibetan monks and nuns wearing blood-red robes arrive at this distant outpost after a long trek through a forbidding range of mountains. Drawn by word that a brilliant teacher resides here, they climb a twisting path up a narrow valley to find a freshly built metropolis of Buddhist worship. It is a stunning sight in an otherwise barren setting and a potent symbol of the revival in Tibetan Buddhism under way here.

The Museum of the Mausoleum of the Nanyue King is a museum in Jiefangbei Road, Yuexiu District, Guangzhou, southern China. With an area of 1,4000 sq. m, the tomb is the witness of Guangzhou’s history of over 2,000 years. It is well known for its well-preserved tomb and funerary antiquity from the Han Dynasty, as well as elegant and grand architecture from the Lingnan (south of the Nanling Mountain) area.

The owner of the tomb is the second king, Zhao Mei of Nanyue State of the Western Han Dynasty (206 B.C.-24 A.D.). Hidden 20 meters (65.6 feet) underground, the tomb is made up of 750 huge stones with colorful murals. The over 1,000 pieces of cultural relics, bronze ware and terra cotta ware in particular, feature the Yue Culture of south China(Nanyue Culture). Represented also are traces of central Chinese culture, the Chu culture of south China, the Bashu culture of southwest China, the Hun culture from the northern grassland, and even foreign cultures.

The tomb was found by accident in 1983. It was hidden about 20 meters below the surface of the mountain and is built out of 750 big stones. Wooden boards were laid at the bottom of the tomb and the sides of which were covered by stone slabs. The whole tomb was magnificent and complicated and specific in its layout with two stone doors dividing it into small compartments.

Pala Manor is ten minutes driving from Gyangtse. As the best-preserved manor in Tibet, Pala will show you the lifestyle of wealthy landed family who once lived here. The former owner was a Bhutanese chief moved to Tibet with his family where in due course he became a local official. At the time of the Tibet Democratic Reform in 1959 he left Tibet along with the Dalai Lama to live in exile. The Pala Manor we see today still has 57 houses on an estate of 5000 square metres. The maze of rooms is richly decorated with exquisitely carved beams and painted rafters.

The Pala Manor we see today still has fifty-seven houses on an estate with an area of approximately 5000 square metres (1.24 acres). The main building is a three-storey structure that includes a scripture hall, reception hall, and bedrooms. In addition to the lobby used for playing the Chinese game of Majiang there are many other reception halls. The maze of rooms is richly decorated with exquisitely carved beams and painted rafters.

One will be genuinely amazed by what can beThe house in Pala Manor seen on display here, for many of the original contents of the reception rooms and bedrooms remain on show. Among the items there are an ox horn that would be filled with Qingke (a highland barley wine), fine porcelain bowls for containing ghee, an ivory Majiang set as well as precious fur clothes, glass cups, tins of biscuits and whiskey imported from Britain. The sun-room walls are hung with tiger and deer skins and further evidence of the wealth of the former owner are such things as a gold saddle and two gramophones that were manufactured in Great Britain. The other recreation rooms include a modern gymnasium with facilities for table tennis, badminton and other physical training equipment including ice-skates.

Yumbu Lhakhang Palace is located on the Tashi Tsere Hill, about 5 km to the southeast of Nedong County of Lhoka. Yumbu means female deer, because the Tashi Tsere Hill appears like a female deer, and Lhakang means holy palace. The Yumbu Lhakang is the first palace in Tibet and was built by Nyechi Tsanpu, the first Tibetan King in 2 century B.C. according to the legend. Enshrined inside the Palace are statues of the Three Periods of Buddhas, statues of successive kings such as Nyechi Tsanpu, Lha Thothori Nyantsen, Rebajian, Songtsen Gampo and Trisong Detsan. About 400m to the northeast of the Tashi Tsere Hill, there is a famous spring named the Gar Spring which flows in a ceaseless stream for the whole year.

During the reign of the 28th King Lha Thothori Nyantsen in the fifth century, a golden Stupa, a jewel (and/or a form to the manufacture of dough-Stupas) and a Sutra, that no one could read, felt from the sky on the roof of the building. A voice called from the sky said:”In five generations one who understand the meaning will come.”Later, Yumbu Lhakhang Palace became the summer palace of the 33rd king Songtsen Gampo and Princess Wencheng in the Tang Dynasty. After Songtsen Gampo had transferred his seat to Lhasa, Yumbu Lhakhang Palace became a Chapel and under the reign of the 5th Dalai Lama, Ngawang Lobsang Gyatso, a monastery of the Yellow Sect.

The Yumbu Lhakhang palace may have been the oldest structure in Tibet before being mostly destroyed during the Cultural Revolution. In the 1960s, the Yumbu Lhakhang was rebuilt and beautifully redecorated. The Yumbu Lkakhang is revered by pilgrims as the location of the first appearance of Buddhism in Tibet.

Tibet, this stands at the top of the world in the city, the average elevation of four thousand meters above the snowy plateau gestated from generation to generation of the Tibetan people, they love this piece of land, they use their enthusiasm in this land, carry forward. If you want to come here to travel, it must first look at the culture of Tibet, this will provide you travel help.

Talking about Tibet’s culture, it should be from the Tibet festivals. Tibetan is one of the many festivals, it is said that this year have greatly small 100 Festival. In the every kind of festival contains different meaning. We have to say that the Tibetan New Year. The Tibetan beginning in January 1st, Tibet is the most solemn holiday; there is the Lantern Festival, the lunar January fifteen people light a lot of butter lamp, lamp holder, and build a lighthouse, also with the butter sculpture painting and various patterns, is very good! Besides these there are some Tibetan people must celebrate the holiday, which I have no one one was introduced, which you have come here to experience will have the feeling.

Tibet is a mysterious place, its quiet its sanctity, the dream of everyone here will be pure, here is the Tibet, a let you cherished place, your every act and every move can let Buddha discerned, your heart here by the pious washing, your everything about life disruption and not be understood become meaningless, you in here, don’t think of sad thing, the scenery here in heaven with you around, your physical and mental Piaoyang, you all here quietly hide, to look at the mysterious and profound.